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Courtney Barnett is back …
Song of the Day: The acclaimed Australian indie singer-songwriter returns with a catchy, but also darkly cathartic new single, produced by John Congleton, and her first new material since 2023's instrumental album End Of The Day, and the follow-up to 2021's Things Take Time, Take Time LP
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Ezra Furman - One Hand Free
Song of the Day: A warm, beautiful, gently witty, if melancholy, species-themed standalone single by the acclaimed American singer-songwriter taken from the same sessions as her 10th album, Goodbye Small Head, out on Bella Union. It is accompanied by a video shot by JJ Gonson featuring Ezra accompanied by an assortment of birds, lizards and myriad other species
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Video still from Austra’s Siren Song
Song of the Day: Effervescent, soaring electro-pop inspired variously by ABBA, Ray of Light, The X-Files and Greek mythology in a dreamy plea for connection by the Canadian vocalist and composer Katie Stelmanis, heralding her fifth album Chin Up Buttercup, out on 14 November via Domino
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Beverly Glenn-Copeland
Song of the Day: A beautiful, moving, gently old-fashioned new version of an older song by the veteran US-born Canadian trans singer with that distinctive, charming voice, heralding the forthcoming album, Laughter In Summer, out on 6 February 2026 via Transgressive Records. Let Us Dance was previously released as a synth-based version on the 1986 album Keyboard Fantasies
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The New Eves - Red Brick / Whale Station
Song of the Day: Following their excellent debut LP in August, The New Eve Is Rising, the Brighton experimental quartet return with with an arresting mix of spoken word and lo-fi folk-rock, developed from a jam and a poem about a trip to New York, and out on Transgressive Records
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Chanel Beads’ Shane Lavers with Maya McGrory
Song of the Day: New York-based musician Shane Lavers’ latest single is a mesmeric, textured piece of dreamy digital and analogue experimentalism about memory, accompanied by Zachary Paul on violin and vocals by Maya McGrory, and out on Jagjaguwar
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Unclouded, the upcoming album by Melody's Echo Chamber
Song of the Day: Ethereal, luxuriant dream pop full of escapism and optimism by the French musician Melody Prochet, heralding her upcoming new album Unclouded out 5 December via Domino Records co-produced by Sweden’s Sven Wunder
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Lianne La Havas
Song of the Day: With her first new music in five years, collaborations and covers aside, a gorgeous, sensitive, intimate, sparse, vocal and guitar number by the soulful, golden-voiced British singer-songwriter, a candid number about mental anguish.
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Stereolab’s new AA side: Fed Up With Your Job / Constant And Uniform Movement Unknown
Song of the Day: A sprightly, defiant, catchy, classic AA-side release by the Anglo-French avant-pop band, alongside the song Constant And Uniform Movement Unknown, written by Tim Gane and Laetitia Sadier, and out on Duophonic UHF Disks and Warp Records
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The Fiery Furnaces anniversary edition of Blueberry Boat
Song of the Day: Brooklyn’s brother and sister duo of Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger and co return with a quirky indie-rock experimental echoing piano and vocal number, an additional track to 20th anniversary edition of their seminal 2004 album Blueberry Boat
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Art d’Ecco
Song of the Day: Following the release of their fifth album, Serene Demon, in February this year, further wonderfully warm, catchy, witty indie pop with a touch of glam in this cover of the Chris Spedding number, by the Canadian artist from Victoria, British Columbia, out on Paper Bag Records
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Mavis Staples
Song of the Day: A gorgeous, slow, moving, country-style cover by the legendary American soul and gospel singer and civil rights activist of the 1995 song by Sparklehorse written by Mark Linkous (who passed away in 2010), and the title track heralding Mavis’s upcoming album out on 7 November via ANTI Records
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A wobbly still from the video for Civilians by Clark
Song of the Day: Quirky, oddball, squelchy, strangely addictive electronica with flute-ish sounds, and an eccentric jelly-based seven-dancers video choregraphed by Melanie Lane x Corps Conspirators, heralding British experimental artist Christopher Clark’s upcoming album Steep Stims, out on 7 November via Throttle Records / Decca.
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Dry Cleaning
Song of the Day: Brilliantly droll, different, downbeat, throwaway profundity and wit from the unmistakable delivery of vocalist Florence Shaw and Bowie-esque guitarist Tom Dowse, by the south London post-punk quartet, heralding their upcoming new album Secret Love, produced by Cate Le Bon, and out on 9 January, via 4AD
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Juana Molina – Siestas Ahí
Song of the Day: The acclaimed Argentinian guitarist and pop experimentalist returns with her first single in eight years, making beautiful and extraordinary sounds with her instrument with angelic, otherworldly vocals in a song about dissolving in someone’s kisses, heralding her upcoming new album DOGA, out on 5 November via Sonamos
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Second Sleep
Song of the Day: Released alongside another track, Star Eyes, a stylish, dynamic, funk-pop single relating to the subconscious and dreams by the flamboyant Los Angeles-based electro-pop duo of Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin, with a highly entertaining fantasy video directed by Amalia Irons
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Danny Brown - Starburst
Song of the Day: A frenetic swirl of arrhythmic, extraordinary, otherworldly, restless sounds and manic energy are all conjured this title track from the forthcoming seventh album (out 7 November via Warp Records) by the innovative American rapper, collaborating here with the Portuguese producer Holly, and Frost Children’s Angel Prost whose voice enters in the latter stages
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Lael Neale - Some Bright Morning
Song of the Day: Following her latest album, Altogether Stranger, out earlier this year, the bright-voiced American indie DIY folk-pop singer’s new single, out on Sub Pop, is a fabulously uplifting bluesy number with vintage drum machine, her signature Omnichord, driving rhythm guitar stylish backwards soloing of her producer and accompanist, Guy Blakeslee
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Ólöf Arnalds
Song of the Day: An exquisitely beautiful, delicate and haunting track by the Icelandic artist on which she ponders the gaping hole in her stomach when she renounced Catholicism as a teenager, and heralding her upcoming new album Spíra (Sprout) out on 5 December via Bella Union
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Miki Berenyi Trio - Doldrum Days
Song of the Day: Following their debut album Tripla out earlier this year, Miki Berenyi on (originally from Lush), Kevin McKillop (Moose) and Oliver Cherer (Gilroy Mere, Aircooled) return with gently luxuriant, indie-dream-pop “about the spaces between places where interesting things can happen”, out on Bella Union
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